Top 33 Matthew Vaughn Quotes

I was inspired by all of it. ‘The Avengers,’ ‘Harry Palmer,’ ‘The Prisoner,’ ‘The Man from UNCLE,’ ‘In Like Flint.’ Of course, there’s a huge shadow of Bond – Bond is the monolith of spy movies – but it’s not just about Bond; there were a lot of other things that influenced me.

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it’s either cool or funny.

So I am concerned about the amount of time we have to make it, cause it doesn’t matter how much money you have, you can’t create more time.

I like the X-Men, otherwise I wouldn’t be doing it.

For me, I’m not Spielberg. I can’t edit while filming another film.

If you do something that’s different and quirky and original, it takes time for people to figure it out.

I don’t believe in development. I believe in pre-pre-production, so when I sit down with an idea for a movie, I’m thinking I’m going to make this film. I don’t think about anything else.

I was so nervous about ‘Kingsman,’ I can’t tell you, because when you do things different and fresh and fun and crazy, you don’t know how people are going to react.

I think there’s a time in your life where you don’t feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you’re a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

I’m a Star Wars fanatic.

Most of the movies nominated for Oscars put me to sleep.

People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn’t matter what genre it is.

Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.

I’m a closet geek.

I’ll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.

I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film.

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.

Crime, money, power, drugs – are all linked.

I used to be very much Jekyll-and-Hyde, where the Jekyll in me would say, ‘Keep to the budget, be responsible,’ and Hyde would be like ,’Ah, we can do an extra shot or an extra day.’

I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.

I’m a big believer that it doesn’t matter what you call your company, nobody ever notices.

What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it’s not going to get that much better.

Music is half the film.

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

I’m as conservative as they come.

Some things that work in a comic don’t work in a film, and vice versa.

If it’s scary, it’s supposed to be scary. If it’s funny, it’s supposed to be funny. That’s all I try to do.

I think it’s easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.

I’m not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what’s going on.

I’ve always loved ‘Bond.’ There were two franchises that I would always have dropped everything to do as a director. ‘Bond’ was one; ‘Star Wars’ was other.

If you do something that’s not pigeonholed, it gets thrown into the ‘We don’t know what this is’ bin, and so let’s not talk about it so much.

So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you’re not noticing.